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From: gtchen@tybalt.caltech.edu (George T. Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why clone the PS/2?
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Date: 23 May 88 21:25:25 GMT
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In article <1181@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>
>It is true that the PS/2 is selling like hotcakes in Europe.  I
>don't know what the economics are.  Perhaps the fall of the dollar
>has something to do with it; perhaps some of the european
>governments have eased restrictions of late.
>

I don't know about the performance of IBM in Europe but they seem to
be doing fine in a much more local industry, Hollywood.  Has anyone
besides me noticed that IBM machines are lying on tables and desks
in most of the recent features.  On TV, I noticed that Head of the Class
has an IBM PS/2 Model 50?  This only a few weeks after the product 
came out.  The previous machine was an AT.